For half a month, the temperature in the Lierte Forest has not changed significantly, but the black soot from the eruption seems to have had the effect of a snowmelt.

The snow and ice in the Lierte Forest have melted a little, making it look a little muddy, causing some trouble for the ants to migrate.

Systm's tentacles grasped all the pupae, including Linda, the queen ant, and flew through the air with the small ball of meat to scout, while Shava and the other members of the Ant Knights carried some jerky food underneath with ordinary ants.

In front of the dozens of ants, there was also a blue-gray slime that was controlled by Sistemm from time to time, jumping forward.

Because of these muddy ice and snow, the frost slime inevitably absorbed a lot of this black smoke, and after a few hours of traveling, the ice-blue slime has turned blue-gray, and it is estimated that it will completely turn black after a while.

Systm is considering whether to abandon this slime friend, after all, the slime gum contaminated with these black ashes will be quite toxic if eaten directly, and most ants will not be able to eat this food.

As he was on the move, he once again spotted the sounds and figures in the forest, and after more than two hours, he was once again confronted by a group of seven gnolls about a kilometer away.

Unlike the dozen or so gnolls two hours ago, the seven gnolls set up a fire and formed an improvised camp, which was supposed to be resting.

Having no intention of making contact with the gnolls, Systm flew down from the sky, and Heatham informed his ant people to change direction and decide to go around the gnolls' camp.

Systm and the ants are not slow, they can walk about two kilometers in an hour, which is about the same as a human walking speed.

Half an hour later, Sistum's team had successfully staggered from the Gnoll's improvised camp without any twists and turns.

However, just after Sistt staggered from the gnolls' camp, Sisttm's tentacles suddenly detected a series of screams from the gnolls camp a hundred meters away.

The gnolls were screaming so loudly that even ordinary ants could hear them clearly, and they stopped and looked around, becoming a little uneasy.

Systham flew into the sky again, and found three of the former gnolls in their makeshift camp lying dead next to the fire, each with a circular bloody hole in their necks.

The remaining four gnolls, two brandishing clubs in their hands, looked a little irritable, while the other two examined their companions.

After observing for a while, Sistemm did not find out how the three gnolls had died, and he decided to take the ant people away from this place of right and wrong.

However, when Systran descended from the sky into the ant team, Systm noticed a vague and eerie shadow about half a meter tall in front of his ant team.

It was a vague shadow, but in fact it was a creature whose body was completely transparent, as if it were invisible, and if it weren't for the powerful vision of [Eye of Sistm], Sistm wouldn't have noticed what was in front of him.

The blue light in Systham's eyes flickered.

After using the ability to recognize things in the [Tools menu], the outline of the blurred shadow in front of Systm's eyes was completely outlined.

It is a half-meter-tall humanoid creature with four upper arms, two of which have cone-shaped spikes, and the other two arms have human-like palms, and its body appears to have a carapace on the surface and wings hanging down from the carapace.

Gently shaking the tentacles above his head, Heatham found that he could not sense any breath of a creature two meters away from him.

His [intuition] gave him a sense of danger, and those two conical spikes could pierce his brain in an instant, killing him instantly.

However, just as Systm was about to inform Shava, who was still looking at the gnolls' camp behind him, to prepare for battle.

Systm suddenly felt the creature in front of him send a familiar power to him.

The creature on the other side actually transmitted a spiritual message to him, the ability of [Spiritual Connection].

"Alertness is good, are you the new insect beast of Fistadine? They found me. ”

This spiritual message is very fluent, even more fluent than Blake, it is a female voice, it is very good, and it makes Heatham feel like facing Queen Kun.

"Are you, Shadow?"

When the other party sent a spiritual message, Syst felt the familiar smell of insect blood, and he knew that the other party was also an insect, and it was an insect that had completed four metamorphosis.

Not only that, Sistemm found that although the insect bloodline of the other party's body was a little confused, her bloodline body was a grasshopper, a distant relative of a grasshopper of the same race as Sistum.

And a series of questions from the predecessor of the little meat ball, as well as the blurred image left by the grasshopper queen, Heatham easily guessed the identity of the other party, and the other party should be the shadow.

Hearing Sistm's spiritual message, Shadow's mood seemed to become a little joyful, and she quickly asked, "Do you know me?" Are you number 95? Or number 107? No, they can't have the wisdom of you. ”

"Is the Festantin you just talking about a swarm druid?"

Instead of answering Shadow's question, Syst asked the question he had after eating the golden acorn, and in his opinion, the owner of the predecessor of the meat ball should be the swarm druid who drove the insects, but he couldn't be sure.

"Yes, Festantin is the Swarm Druid. Aren't you the insects that Festantin studied? As far as I know, only he would send the worm beast from the abyss here. ”

Shadow quickly answered Systham's question, and in a few words, Heatham received a lot of information.

There are abysses, and there are swarm druids.

Heatham didn't continue to answer Shadow's question, he first disconnected the power of the other party's [Psychic Connection], and then used the power of his own [Psychic Connection] to connect with the other party.

In the process of casting out his surprised emotions, Systham transmits several images to the other party, including the image of the grasshopper queen Kun, and the image of the dialogue between the predecessor of the little meat ball and him.

"It turns out that you are the grasshopper that Kun said, but I didn't expect her to die......" Shadow's spiritual message carried some melancholy emotions.

"Are you here for her?" Listening to Shadow's spiritual message, Syst asked.

"yes, I'm here for her." Shadow's transparent body gradually revealed its form, revealing the black-purple carapace covered by her body, and she paused for a moment to continue, "I've always wanted to be free, but I didn't know what to do when I was truly free, but now that I've found my target, I'm going to kill him." ”

"You're no match for him." Remembering the old druid's aura of harmony between heaven and man, Syst advised Shadow Rule.

Shadow didn't answer, just shook his head slightly, it seemed that Systham's persuasion had no effect at all, and Shadow was determined to assassinate the old druid.

At this moment, Shadow was finally spotted by Sawa, who quickly moved in front of Heatham and confronted Shadow.

"It's all right, Shava, she's not an enemy."

Systham explained to Sawa as he continued to communicate with Eige......